Recently, Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai, led by Dr. Thanida Uuarijit, a pediatric nutrition specialist from the Pediatrics Center, participated in a wonderful project under the name “Restore Pure Breathing to Children” to provide good air to children from the Mae Pang Child Development Center and Nong-Pid Child Development Center in Phrao District, Chiang Mai Province. In addition, air purifiers will be donated to another 5 Child Development Centers in Chiang Rai Province.

The intention is to build clean rooms together with the Vejdusit Foundation and the Research Institute for Health Sciences, Chiang Mai University (led by Professor Dr. Khuanchai Supparatpinyo) following three directions:

Preventing dust from outside
Air cleaning inside the room using air purifiers
Adding clean air to the room with a DIY air adder, as detailed in this link

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With the problem of tiny PM 2.5 toxic dust exceeding standard values for a long time, it has inevitably affected the health of young children in many ways. Young children can’t help themselves, child-sized masks are hard to find, and young children breathe and have faster heart rates than adults, allowing them to inhale more dust throughout their bodies than adults.

If children have to stay in polluted air for a long period, it will affect their growth and brain development. Creating a clean room for children is considered a pilot project that will help provide pure air to breathe for better health and quality of life.

Recently, Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai donated a clean room to the Child Development Center (CDC) at Ban Pong. The room, which is 160 square meters in size, had two Levoit 600S units installed by the staff. Before installing the clean room device, the PM2.5 dust level was as high as 82 micrograms. Once operational, it was able to reduce the PM2.5 dust level to only 20 micrograms.